75 Cet is 271 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this G3 III star; the first was found in 2012 by radial velocity (Okayama Astrophysical Observatory).
Fly there in 3D75 Cet c takes 5.6 years to go round its star once.
75 Cet is one of 2 stars in its system. The position of the other star is not catalogued, so only 75 Cet and its planets are drawn.
| Spectral type | G3 III |
| Surface temperature | 4,809 K |
| Mass | 1.92 solar masses |
| Radius | 10.38 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 51.82 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 5.3532 |
| Distance from the Sun | 270.6 light-years (83.0 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 38.0392°, Dec -1.0350° |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 Cet b | 696.6 days | 1.912 AU | 13.3 R⊕ estimated | 787.9 M⊕ minimum | Radial Velocity, 2012 |
| 75 Cet c | 5.6 years | 3.929 AU | 13.9 R⊕ estimated | 289.86 M⊕ minimum | Radial Velocity, 2023 |
Values are the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s composite parameters. A radius marked estimated comes from a mass–radius relation; a mass marked minimum is M sin i. Planet sizes and colours in the 3D view are renderings: none of these worlds has been photographed as more than a point of light.
For a star of 4,809 K, 52 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 7.20 to 13.14 AU. None of its known planets orbits inside it. The zone says how much starlight arrives, not whether a planet has water or air. The edges follow Kopparapu et al. (2014), as the 3D view draws them.
The light you see left 271 years ago, around 1760.